Biggest Blowouts in College Football Playoff History

Georgia’s scintillating opening half-hour towards TCU staked the Bulldogs to a 38-7 lead in Monday’s Nationwide Championship, as they appeared to turn out to be the primary group to repeat as nationwide champions because the Faculty Soccer Playoff’s 2014 debut.

The primary half conjured recollections of a number of the nine-year-old system’s greatest blowouts. Listed below are probably the most lopsided scores of the CFP’s nine-year tenure.

1. 2015 Rose Bowl: Oregon 59, Florida State 20

Quarterback Marcus Mariota and Oregon turned an 18-13 halftime rating right into a laugher with a 27-point third quarter within the first-ever CFP sport.

2. 2015 Cotton Bowl: Alabama 38, Michigan State 0

Michigan State tiptoed into the 2015 CFP on the energy of last-minute wins over Michigan, Ohio State, and Iowa, however ran right into a buzzsaw in working again Derrick Henry and Alabama.

3. 2019 Peach Bowl: LSU 63, Oklahoma 28

LSU quarterback Joe Burrow performed one of many biggest halves by a quarterback in school soccer historical past, throwing seven touchdowns to provide the Tigers a 49-14 halftime lead.

4. 2016 Fiesta Bowl: Clemson 31, Ohio State 0

On the best way to its first nationwide championship in 35 years, Clemson dominated the Buckeyes to arrange a title-game rematch with the Crimson Tide.

T-5. 2019 Nationwide Championship: Alabama 44, Clemson 16

Within the two groups’ third championship matchup (and most up-to-date to this point), the Tigers shook off Alabama in Santa Clara, Ca. to win their second crown in three years.

T-5. 2021 Nationwide Championship: Alabama 52, Ohio State 24

Faculty soccer’s strangest season ended with a decisive Crimson Tide victory after a seesaw first half.

7. 2018 Cotton Bowl: Clemson 30, Notre Dame 3

Notre Dame’s maiden Faculty Soccer Playoff voyage was instantly sunk by a Clemson group that might go on to win the nationwide title.

8. 2021 Orange Bowl: Georgia 34, Michigan 11

Like their in-state rivals six years earlier than them, the Wolverines met a disheartening demise by the hands of an SEC juggernaut after a breakthrough convention season.

9. 2015 Nationwide Championship: Ohio State 42, Oregon 20

Regardless of the Geese choosing up the place they left off within the Rose Bowl by scoring on its opening drive, Ohio State shredded Oregon to win the unlikeliest of its eight nationwide titles.

T-10. 2021 Sugar Bowl: Ohio State 49, Clemson 28

Clearing a longtime hurdle in coach Dabo Swinney’s Tigers, the Justin Fields-led Buckeyes superior to the Nationwide Championship in a truncated pandemic season.

T-10. 2021 Cotton Bowl: Alabama 27, Cincinnati 6

The primary Group of 5 group to make the CFP gave a very good account of itself however in the end succumbed to quarterback Bryce Younger and Alabama.